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Informationen zum Autor Kieran, David Klappentext At War offers essays addressing the central issues in the new military history—ranging from diplomacy and the history of imperialism to the environmental issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of identity, to questions of why and how U.S. wars have been represented in the media. Zusammenfassung At War offers essays addressing the central issues in the new military history—ranging from diplomacy and the history of imperialism to the environmental issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of identity, to questions of why and how U.S. wars have been represented in the media. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: War, the military, and American culture / David Kieran and Edwin A. Martini War and justice / Sahr Conway-Lanz American empire / Stefan Aune Domestic politics and antiwar activism / Nick Witham The military-industrial complex / Mark R. Wilson Military demographics / Jennifer Mittelstadt Combat / Christopher Hamner Veterans and veterans' issues / Wilbur J. Scott War, persecution, and displacement: U.S. refugee policy since 1945 / Jana K. Lipman Race and/in war / Christine Knauer Gender, the military, and war / Kara Dixon Vuic The embodiment of war: bodies for, in, and after war / John M. Kinder War and the environment / Richard P. Tucker Communications media, the U.S. military, and the war brought home / Susan L. Carruthers War in visual culture / Bonnie M. Miller War and film / Scott Laderman War and memory / G. Kurt Piehler Timeline: Major events in U.S. military history, 1890-2017 / Katherine Ellison and William Watson
